Fed up with the dehumanization by the anti-smoker industry and unwilling
to stand social experiments that must first dismantle civil liberty concepts
in order to “denormalize” smoking, C.L.A.S.H. presents the national “Smoking
is Normal” campaign.

For the smoking/tobacco/e-cig bans don’t create a new normality. They
simply suppress a pre-existing one as evidenced by their use of the word
“denormalize.”

True normality requires no external restraining force to maintain it.
Human behaviors that have traditionally been viewed as not a societal norm
and against policy do not need signs posted everywhere to remind you of
it. That “No Smoking” signs remain proliferate clearly proves that it’s
smoking that has been and still is the traditional norm. It’s the measures
employed by anti-smokers that are not. Their own words describing their
fear that the use of electronic cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or just the
mere sight of any smoking will “re-normalize”(again, their word) smoking
prove this is the case.

So hey you anti-smoker organizations... you can silence the industry
but we are not the industry and you can't silence the people.

PROTEST BANNER TO FLY ABOVE YANKEE STADIUM ON OPENING DAY IN REGARD
TO SMOKELESS TOBACCO BAN

The New York City Council recently passed a bill to ban the use of smokeless
tobacco in stadiums by players and fans alike. Mayor Bill de Blasio has
said he will sign it into law shortly. The justification given for its
enactment is to prevent "impressionable youth from observing its use" and
especially by "role models."

It is C.L.A.S.H.'s contention that this is a law restricting a form
of free speech masquerading as a health law. If the written or spoken
words "I use tobacco" or "smoking is normal" cannot be banned on the ground
that it is protected free speech then conduct that is said to express and/or
convey these same words must be treated equally and out of law's reach.

A t-shirt -- or a banner -- with the words "Smoking is Normal" would
pose, according to them, the exact same problem their censorship on the
use of chewing tobacco is intended to prevent. It "sends the message"
that tobacco use is the "norm."

The potential spread of an "unacceptable" idea through observance is
the inescapable common denominator between the two.

It also shouldn't be forgotten that both tobacco and smoking itself,
is legal.

Finding intolerable this unprecedented suppression, by law, of an idea
in order to keep others from possibly thinking of doing the same, CLASH
will exercise its first amendment right by flying a banner over Yankee
Stadium on opening day, April 4th, 2016, in protest...

Pictures of the event below

RESPONSE TO NYC LAW THAT ADDS NON-TOBACCO AND SMOKELESS
TOBACCO TO THE "SMOKE-FREE AIR ACT"

Testimony submitted to NYC Council:

SmokelessTobacco in the Smoke-Free Air Act -- Illogical and
Unlawful...